Convention on the Rights of the Child; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; and the Optional Protocol on the participation of children in armed conflicts to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No.5 (2003). General measures for the implementation of the Convention on Children's Rights

Recommendations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol to the Convention

Convention on civil aspects of international child abduction

Convention on the Prohibition and immediate action to abolish the worst forms of children's work

Convention on the lowest age for employment

Standard Minimum Rules of the UN for Juvenile Justice from 1985. (known as "Beijing Rules")

Standard Minimum Rules of the UN for measures alternative to institutional treatment from 1990. (known as "Tokyo Rules")

Implementation of Juvenile Justice, Resolution of Economic and Social Council of the United Nations 1997/30

Recommendation no. R (87) 20 of the Council of Europe to member states on the response of society to juvenile delinquency adopted in 1987, by the Ministerial Committee

Recommendation (2003) 20 of the Council of Europe to member states on new ways of treating juvenile delinquency and about the role of juvenile justice, adopted in 2003. by the Ministerial Committee

Amended European Social Charter, Strasbourg, May 3. 1996.

European Charter on youth participation in the life on the municipal and regional level

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights